September 8, 2009(Barcelona, Spain) – Thrombectomy using manual but not mechanical thrombus-aspirating catheters significantly improved one-year survival in STEMI patients undergoing PCI in a pooled ...

LEIPZIG, GERMANY — The routine addition of aspiration thrombectomy before PCI does not improve clinical outcomes at 12 months in patients with non-ST-elevation MI (NSTEMI), according to a randomized ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The increased stroke risk associated with manual thrombectomy during primary PCI detected in the TOTAL trial was ...

To the Editor: A typical feature of recent trials on thrombus aspiration is the binary approach, with either thrombectomy or standard percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) considered to be ...

During primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), manual thrombectomy may reduce distal embolization and thus improve microvascular perfusion. Small trials have suggested that thrombectomy ...

Thrombectomy does not appear to reduce thrombus burden in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to ...